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Analysis of the Willingness and Influencing Factors of Nursing Interns and Nursing Institutions

TAO Guorui, HUANG Yingpeng, HONG Xueting, ZHANG Xiuying, ZHONG Ling, TAO Hui   

  1. School of Nursing, Kunming Medical University, Kunming Yunnan, 650500, China
  • Online:2022-07-10 Published:2022-10-31

Abstract: ObjectiveTo explore the current status and influencing factors of job selection intention of working in the elderly care institutions with combination of medical and nursing care among the undergraduate nursing interns. Methods200 undergraduate nursing interns in a medical university were investigated by using the general information questionnaire, facts on aging quiz and Kogan’s attitudes toward old people scale. ResultsOnly 68% of the respondents indicated that they were willing to work in the elderly care institutions with combination of medical and nursing care. The respondent who was male, resident in rural area, the only child, with experience in caring for the elderly, selecting the nursing specialty as the first choice in the college entrance examination, considering that the geriatric nursing courses offered by the school were useful, and understanding well the elderly care institutions with combination of medical and nursing care, could have a stronger willingness to work in this kind of institutions (P<0.05). ConclusionThe willingness of undergraduate nursing interns to choose jobs in the elderly care institutions with combination of medical and nursing care needs to be improved. It is suggested that the government, medical colleges and elderly care institutions should take measures from the aspects of policy support, education and training, recruitment and publicity to encourage the undergraduate nursing interns to find employment in the elderly care institutions with combination of medical and nursing care.

Key words: Undergraduate nursing intern, Combination of medical and nursing care, Elderly care institutions, Willingness to work

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